Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Today, Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the launch of the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative devoted to addressing historic underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and preparing a new, more diverse generation of researchers and scholars to assume leadership roles in tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges. The $150 million effort funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies will be endowed to create additional pathways for students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to pursue and receive PhDs in STEM fields.
May 11, 2021 Tags: Bloomberg Philanthropies, HCBUs, Johns Hopkins University, PhDs, STEM, Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Incorporating the arts—rapping, dancing, drawing—into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels be more creative in their learning, finds a new study by Johns Hopkins University.
March 5, 2019 Tags: arts, Education, K-12 Education, Mariale Hardiman, School of Education, STEM
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12
The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded more than $600,000 to offer summer research experiences for undergraduates from backgrounds underrepresented in science and whose own colleges and universities offer limited chances to work on original research.
January 7, 2019 Tags: Amgen Foundation, Joel Schildbach, STEM, underrepresented minorities
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Fundraising, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, University-Related
With $2.46 million in support from the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins University is teaming up with two historically black Baltimore institutions, Morgan State and Coppin State universities, to cultivate a diverse group of highly trained biomedical researchers.
November 12, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, Coppin State University, diversity, Morgan State University, post-doctoral fellows, School of Medicine, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences
Students from nine Baltimore City elementary/middle schools will show off creations they conceived and built—some as part of classroom assignments, and others in response to challenges they encounter in their own communities.
May 14, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City, inventions, SABES, STEM
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering
Baltimore City Public Schools in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University has adopted a program to strengthen science, technology, engineering and math instruction in the district’s elementary schools.
September 12, 2017 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, elementary school, Next Generation Science Standards, STEM
| Category: Education/K-12, JHU Community Connections, Public policy, Uncategorized
Though scientists know children with strong spatial thinking skills have an edge in science, technology, engineering and math, and that those skills are teachable, no one has formally infused them into a working elementary curriculum. With a $1.4 million federal grant, Johns Hopkins University researchers will co-develop and test such a program for third-grade science classes.
July 19, 2017 Tags: Amy Shelton, elementary education, Johns Hopkins University, Kelly Fisher, Kristin Gagnier, Prince George's County Public Schools, Science of Learning Institute, spatial thinking, STEM, third grade
| Category: Education/K-12, Psychology
A program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but improves their attitudes about science, a new study finds.
November 10, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, BioEYES, biology, Education, fish, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, Science, STEM, Steven A. Farber, zebrafish
| Category: biology, Education/K-12
Graffiti scrawlers in Highlandtown, beware: a team of third- and fourth-graders is building a drone to catch you in the act, and also clean the building.
May 2, 2016 Tags: backpack, Baltimore City Public Schools, drone, Global Air Media, graffiti, robot, SABES, STEM, student engineers
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Uncategorized
The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City Schools have partnered to create the city’s first pre-K-8th grade school dedicated to giving students a foundation in engineering and computer skills.
November 5, 2015 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
A panel that included women in leadership positions at a top technology company – Bloomberg LP – convened at Johns Hopkins University this week to address the ongoing need to support talented young women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
October 17, 2014 Tags: Bloomberg LP, Johns Hopkins University, STEM
| Category: Student-Related News, Technology, University-Related
President Ronald J. Daniels and more than 75 other research university leaders are asking the federal government to provide top international graduates a clear path to green cards so they can make discoveries, invent technologies and create jobs in the United States.
June 29, 2012 Tags: green card, H-1B visa, immigration, Ronald Daniels, Ronald J. Daniels, STEM, students, visa
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, Student-Related News, University Administration
On Friday, Jan. 20, The Johns Hopkins University will hold a daylong meeting of nearly 300 faculty members, academic leaders, staff members and outside experts to consider innovative, more effective alternatives to traditional large lecture/lab introductory science classes for undergraduates, graduate students and professional students.
January 13, 2012 Tags: Gateway Sciences Initiative, Lloyd Minor, science education, STEM
| Category: Engineering, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
